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10:43 am: Wales in Welsh
Someone has put up a rendering of OpenStreetMap in the UK in Welsh. Some of the data is dodgy, but I expect it will quickly be fixed now there is a practical reason to do this. Looks kind of weird having Welsh names for only some English cities (what is the Welsh for Milton Keynes? Heh. But surely there are Welsh names for Rochester and Manchester?)

Yeah, it's not possible to ask Google to narrow search to Welsh-only documents yet, but if you approximate it there are lots of instances of people writing "Rochester" for Rochester.

Today from that map I learned that Caerwynt is the Welsh name of Winchester. It's sort of like having a three-dimensional map, because towns in England either do or don't have Welsh names, and there's generally a reason for it (either they are very old, or they are new but are places that Welsh people have to talk about a lot in modern times), and this forms the third dimension of the map.